[Hiring] Engineering Manager, Product Engineering @TRM Labs

Role Description

As an Engineering Manager, Product Engineering, you will lead a multidisciplinary pod of frontend, backend, and full-stack engineers responsible for shipping highly visible, workflow-heavy product features used by customers every day. This role blends people leadership, technical judgment, and execution ownership.

• Lead and develop a pod of engineers across frontend, backend, and full-stack disciplines.
• Own execution of key product initiatives end-to-end, from scoping through delivery and iteration.
• Partner closely with Product and Design on roadmap planning, tradeoffs, and prioritization.
• Drive predictable delivery while maintaining high standards for quality, reliability, and maintainability.
• Provide technical leadership through design reviews, architectural discussions, and unblocking engineers.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with other engineering teams to ensure smooth integrations and shared ownership.
• Establish strong engineering fundamentals: clear documentation, observability, testing, and operational rigor.
• Foster a culture of ownership, velocity, and clear communication.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science or a related field.
• 5+ years of software engineering experience and 2–5+ years of people management experience.
• Proven success leading multidisciplinary engineering teams (frontend + backend).
• Strong product engineering background with experience shipping user-facing workflows or product surfaces.
• Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous problem spaces and move quickly with incomplete information.
• Technical grounding that allows you to evaluate designs, review code, and guide architectural decisions.
• Excellent communication skills and strong cross-functional partnership instincts.

Requirements

• Experience scaling or evolving product engineering pods.
• Background in B2B or enterprise software.
• Experience with data-rich, workflow-heavy, or real-time products.
• Familiarity with event-driven systems or complex integrations.

Benefits

• High velocity, high ownership team that expects clarity, follow-through, and impact.
• Work that often requires operating with a high degree of ambiguity.
• A high level of personal ownership and accountability.
• Close collaboration across teams and functions.
• Frequent, high-touch communication.
• Creative problem solving and out-of-the-box thinking.
• A pace that rewards urgency, adaptability, and outcomes.

Company Description

TRM Labs provides AI-powered intelligence solutions that help public and private sector agencies investigate and disrupt crime. TRM's platforms enable investigators to trace illicit activity, build cases, and construct operating pictures of threat networks. Leading agencies and businesses worldwide rely on TRM to make the world safer and more secure.

TRM is a Series C company with $220M in total funding, backed by Blockchain Capital, Goldman Sachs, Bessemer, Y Combinator, Thoma Bravo, and others. Headquartered in San Francisco, TRM operates as a distributed-first company with hubs in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Washington D.C., London, and Singapore.